Another problem with endovascular repair, for the insurance company if not the patient, is cost.

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EndoVascular Technologies recalled the product voluntarily in March 2001 and reintroduced it in August 2001.

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The subsidiary, EndoVascular Technologies, "also agreed to plead guilty to ten felony counts, including nine for shipping misbranded products and one count of a former employee making false statements to the government, " Guidant said in a statement.

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"I would be very happy if Medicare would put a moratorium on any invasive carotid treatments" in people without stroke symptoms, said Wesley S. Moore, UCLA's chief emeritus of vascular surgery and author of a leading text on vascular and endovascular surgery.

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